<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">From Francesca, with thanks:</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Zoe Getman-Pickering</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:zgetmanp@umass.edu" target="_blank">zgetmanp@umass.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 12:01 PM<br>Subject: Recruiting PhD students for projects on the equitable energy transition<br>To: ELEVATE Program <<a href="mailto:elevate@umass.edu" target="_blank">elevate@umass.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div>
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who might be interested. We are recruiting 5-8 PhD students for our NSF funded projects on sustainable energy, energy equity, and climate change resilience. Our students collaborate with each other and community and industry leaders to find energy solutions
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interested in tackling the challenges of the energy transition within any of the following fields: anthropology, engineering, economics, c</span><span style="margin:0px">omputer science, </span><span style="margin:0px">economics,</span><span style="margin:0px"> environmental
conservation, </span><span style="margin:0px">geosciences, and p</span><span style="margin:0px">olitical science. </span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px">Our
group is particularly interested in applicants with a lived experience of injustice, and climate change (particularly BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, first gen, folks with disabilities). </span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px">Join
our diverse and interdisciplinary team, and get your PhD in a collaborative, fun, and supportive environment! See our attached flier for more details. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px;text-decoration:none">1-2 years of fellowship funding through ELEVATE and up to 3 additional years of fellowship funding through UMass.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:white">Zoe Getman-Pickering, PhD (she/her/hers)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Phone: (413) 545-3484<a href="http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B14135453484" class="gv-tel-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Call +1 413-545-3484 via Google Voice"></a></span></p>
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</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><h4>Francesca M. Hopkins, Ph.D.</h4>Associate Professor of Climate Change and Sustainability<br>Dept. of Environmental Sciences<br>University of California<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br></div><div>(951) 827-4781 <a href="http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B19518274781" class="gv-tel-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Call +1 951-827-4781 via Google Voice"></a>(office)</div>(707) 328-3135 (cellular)<br></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dana Simmons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Acting Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Riverside</span></div></div></div></div></div>